One of the most used features of the Music Library are the group listening rooms, located to the left of the reference desk. These rooms are to be used by small groups (4-8 people) to listen to recordings either from internet databases like NAXOS, videos from YouTube, or discs from our collection of sound recordings. The computers are firewalled to not access any other webpages.
... remember when I said the teenagers were smart?
They broke the firewall/parental controls.
Not only that, but the center room (there are three) is blocked from view by the stairs to the academic library. I always know that when I heard raucous laughter I should do a quick walk around to make sure too many schananigans going on.
But unfortunately, today I had to discipline my first campers because they were using facebook and watching videos that had nothing to do with music library pursuits. I got a little lip, admittedly, but they stood down quickly once they realized they had virtually no defense against my argument. (There is a poster that tells them what they can and cannot do in said room. Obviously they weren't following it.)
Another odd thing is that the record player needle keeps going missing. Strange.
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